Key Characters
Persephone Mira Hadley: Nicknamed Sephy, is the daughter of a powerful Cross, Kamal Hadley. She was childhood best friends with Callum McGregor despite their different backgrounds, and eventually falls in love with him. After a few years have passed without contact, Callum kidnaps her but they end up sleeping together and have a daughter, Callie Rose, who is raised by Sephy and Meggie after Callum is killed. In Checkmate she starts to have feelings for her bandmate Sonny, and although she starts dating a wealthy Cross, Nathan, Sonny reveals his love for her at the end of the book and in Double Cross they plan to marry.
Callum McGregor: Callum was a Nought, and is best friends, and later lovers, with Sephy Hadley. He is the brother of Lynette, who has a mental illness and eventually commits suicide although only he knows it wasn't an accident due to a letter she left him,and Jude, who he constantly clashes with. He managed to get into Sephy's school, proving his intelligence as only a few Noughts are admitted, but later left as he couldn't handle the discrimination towards him. After losing contact with Sephy, he works for the Liberation Militia and helps them kidnap her, however he ends up sleeping with her and then letting her go. Callum is the father of Sephy's child, Callie Rose therefore, but is hanged for his involvement in Sephy's kidnap before Callie Rose is born.
Jude McGregor: Callum's older brother, who holds a grudge against Sephy, whom he believes is responsible for his brother's death. He hates all Crosses, but becomes romantically inclined towards a Cross named Cara, who he had previously planned to just use for her money. Despite his best efforts he starts to have genuine feelings for Cara, but the resultant confusion and conflicting emotions over his hatred of Crosses ultimately prove too much and he follows through with his original plan. He ends up beating her to death and taking all her money. He later attempts to use Callie Rose to get back at Sephy by training her to be a terrorist, but his plan backfires when Jasmine takes the bomb and activates it in his hotel room. Before he is killed in the bomb blast, he finally admits his feelings for Cara to himself, as, she is the last thing he sees before he is killed.
Callie Rose Hadley : Daughter of Callum McGregor and Persephone Hadley, her father died before she was born. She resents her mother for keeping her father's identity a secret from her whole life, and joins the Liberation Militia, after being manipulated by her uncle, Jude. She intended to blow herself and her grandfather up, but her grandmother manipulated the situation by stealing the bomb and locking her in the cellar with her mother, forcing them to make up, resulting in Callie finally forgiving her mother. She is in a relationship with Tobey, a Nought and her childhood friend, mirroring the unlikely relationship between her parents. Both her and Tobey go on to study law at university.
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